Mayor Roque and his son, Joseph, 23, were tried on charges
that in February 2012 they hacked into and shut down a "Recall Roque" website created
by Hudson County Freeholder Jose Munoz. The federal jury in Newark acquitted Mayor
Roque of both computer hacking and conspiracy, while finding his son guilty of only
computer hacking.

"I don't feel good about it at all," said Jean G., 62, a
resident of West New York for around 20 years. "It's all around town, that he
threw his son under the bus. "

She also said that Mayor Roque had not done anything for the
town and that his entire administration was "crooked" and needed to change.

"I don't think it's fair," said Dany Garcia, 25, a truck
driver and resident of the town for 15 years. "If one's guilty, then both are
guilty. I don't know why it's only his son [who is guilty]."

Morgana Xuna, 42, a painter and resident of Guttenberg, said that questions remained for her
about Mayor Roque.

"There's still some questions about him," she said. "There's
questions about parenting, guidance, what kind of conversations he has with his
son. It doesn't matter how old the son is."

Other West New Yorkers felt that justice had been served in
the jury's decision to acquit the mayor and hold his son responsible for the
computer hacking.

"I knew he wasn't guilty at all," said Yolanda Palafox, 19, while
handing out fliers in front of a store on Bergenline Avenue near West New York Town Hall. "Something told me that he wasn't."

"His son is responsible for his own actions," said a
23-year-old Hudson County College nursing student at a bus stop near town hall,
who declined to give her name. "The mayor should guide his son, but he's not
responsible for what his son did."